Re: [HACKERS] posmaster failed under high load

Oleg Broytmann <phd@sun.med.ru>

From: Oleg Broytmann <phd@sun.med.ru>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-05-06T14:43:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, 6 May 1999, Tom Lane wrote:
> Something that's been on my to-do list since the ps-status-display code
> got added is to import "sendmail"'s ps-status-display module lock, stock,
> and barrel.  Sendmail's code is kinda ugly, but it's been wrung out and
> works on a wide variety of Unixes.  The code we have doesn't ... (it's
> never worked on my HPUX box, for instance, whereas sendmail does).

   The code was touched by wu-ftpd authors once. When I thought of stealing
the code I found sources in wu-ftpd distribution a little cleaner.

> 			regards, tom lane

Oleg.
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